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This best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and contemporary debates. This new edition features more readings than ever before—88 in total—and upholds the anthology’s traditional emphasis on complete selections and the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and organically explore the range of positions on key philosophical issues. Clear, concise introductions provide reading tips and background information to help students engage directly with the primary sources. The book’s renowned selection of readings covers topics such as the nature and value of philosophy; reason and religious belief; the grounds and limits of human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism, free will and responsibility; and morality and its critics, with a new chapter on the meaning of life.

Table of Contents

(1926-2004): In Memoriam

Preface

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The Nature And Value Of Philosophy

Plato, Euthyphro

The Value of Philosophy

Reason And Religious Belief

The Existence Of God

Anselm of Canterbury, The Ontological Argument, from Proslogion

Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, On Behalf of the Fool

The Ontological Argument

The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica

A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument

The Cosmological Argument

The Argument from Design

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI

The Problem Of Evil

Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamazov

Evil and Omnipotence

Must God Create the Best? Richard Swinburne, Why God Allows Evil, from Is there a God?

God and the Problem of Evil

Reason And Faith

The Ethics of Belief

The Will to Believe

Without Evidence or Argument

The Wager

Miracles and Testimony, from Think

Human Knowledge: Its Grounds And Limits

Skepticism

A Brain in a Vat

Three Skeptical Arguments

The Problem of the Criterion

The Nature Of Knowledge

Plato, Knowledge as Justified True Belief, from Theaetetus

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? James Cornman, Keith Lehrer, and George Pappas, An Analysis of Knowledge

Our Knowledge Of The External World

Appearance and Reality and the Existence of Matter

Meditations on First Philosophy

The Causal Theory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge

Of the Existence of a Material World, from Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

Proof of an External World

The Methods Of Science

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII

An Encounter with David Hume

Conjectures and Refutations

Believing Where We Cannot Prove, from Abusing Science

Mind And Its Place In Nature

The Mind-Body Problem

In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism

The Qualia Problem

The Mind is the Brain, from Introducing Persons

Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism, from Matter and Consciousness

Can Nonhumans Think?

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Minds, Brains, and Programs

Robots and Minds, from Consciousness

Brute Experience

Animal Minds

Personal Identity And The Survival Of Death

The Prince and the Cobbler, from An Essay concerning Human Understanding

Of Mr Locke's Account of Identity, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

The Self, from A Treatise of Human Nature

Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons

Where am I? from Brainstorms

A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

Determinism, Free Will, And Responsibility

The Mysteries Of Free Will

Freedom of the Will

Libertarianism: The Case For Free Will And Its Incompatibility With Determinism

Human Freedom and the Self

Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Themes

Hard Determinism: The Case For Determinism And Its Incompatibility With Any Important Sense Of Free Will

The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature

Why We Have No Free Will and Can Live Without It

Compatibilism: The Case For Determinism And Its Compatibility With The Most Important Sense Of Free Will Of Liberty and Necessity, from An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

The Good Will and The Categorical Imperative, from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Utilitarianism, chapters 1 and 2

What Makes Right Acts Right? from The Right and the Good

What is Feminist Ethics? from An Invitation to Feminist Ethics

Ethical Problems Plato, Crito

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

The Survival Lottery

Active and Passive Euthanasia

Unsanctifying Human Life

A Defense of Abortion

An Argument That Abortion is Wrong

The Meaning Of Life

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Brave New World

My Confession

The Meaning of Life

The Absurd

Glossary

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Simply greatAugust 13, 2011

by John Rapp

If you read this textbook, you will know everything you ever need to about philosophy. This is simply the best textbook, with lucid introductory passages and the most important readings. You cannot possible lead an intellectually stimulating life without addressing the problems discussed in this textbook.

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Great book and priceFebruary 14, 2011

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